Remember that posting I made about Back-to-School and Doom 3 driving sales for PCs during the month of August? Well News.com just wrote a similar piece talking about the gaming industries role in driving new PC upgrades.
I can foresee a time 3 - 5 years from now where the ONLY thing driving new PC upgrade cycles will be gaming. While I am not an expert on the PC upgrade cycle, I would be willing to bet that most PC upgrades today are based on the need to manage and manipulate large media files like pictures from digital cameras, home movies, etc. People have long since stopped upgrading simply to get the next version of Windows or the latest processor. Heck, most people simply browse the web and do email, they don't need 3 GHz for that. Today they need monster hard drives, like 80 - 100 GB for their digital media.... just wait until you can have a terabyte of data, and the need to upgrade will simply be for high end applications like gaming... that is unless Intel and Microsoft have a killer application up their sleeves we don't know about.
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